Thursday, January 24, 2013

Blood on the Moon Blog Tour

In the job that pays the mortgage and allows her to
indulge in her real passion, writing, Cassiel Knight works for ClackamasCounty
in the beautiful state of Oregon.
Crazy- passionate about the romance writing industry, Cassiel has a paranormal
romance series featuring fallen angels and demons, an urban fantasy novella and
a new paranormal romance series that started this fall with Champagne Book
Group. She writes paranormal romances with kick-assitude that blend archeology
and mythology – just a few of her favorite things. She can be found online at her website

Mia Langdon—tomb raider and adventure-seeker—has everything she
wants. Freedom. Independence.
No chains (a.k.a. a man). Her troubles begin when she’s attacked on a dig in Peru. Soon,
she’s forced to use her tomb raiding talents to find the flaming arrows of an
Egyptian goddess. In the wrong hands, this weapon could destroy the human
race—and nearly had.

Used to doing things her own way, it isn’t long before she figures out that she
needs the help of Harrison Braden Stanton, her stuffy, but so yummy,
Egyptologist and ex-lover. There’s one problem. He despises what she does. As
Mia and Harrison find themselves in the middle of a battle between the Egyptian
gods and goddess, there’s no choice for the woman with a Grand Canyon-sized
independence streak and the man working for the Egyptian god, Osiris, but to
work together to prevent the destruction of all they love.

My Review:

I really enjoyed this book. The history of Egypt thrown in with paranormal is
a great combo.

Mia is a tomb raider but she is very selective on who gets
the artifacts she finds. While on a dig in Peru she is attacked and forced to
look for the flaming arrows of an Egyptian Goddess that if put in the wrong
hands can destroy everything. Mia is forced to work with the one man from her
past Harrison whose name she can’t even stand
to hear. But the two of them have to put aside the feelings and work with
together in a battle against Egyptian Gods and Goddess to protect everything
from being destroyed.

I loved Mia she is a
heroine that you just love. She is
strong, independent, loyal to those she loves, and has a passion for what she
does. Harrison is a great hero one I loved
from the beginning. All the characters are written so well. But for me my
favorite part of this story is all the history of Egypt along with the Gods and
Goddess.

This book is the perfect mix of tomb raider meets Indiana
Jones with Egyptian Gods and Goddess thrown in and a Heroine and Hero who leave
you wanting more. 5/5 Bloody Fangs

Excerpt:

What was with all the handsome blokes lately? It seemed she
couldn’t go more than an hour without seeing men who were the poster children
for every woman’s fantasy. Or were they just her fantasies?

He removed the gun from Gus’s temple but didn’t drop his arm. The man’s grip
was steady, not quivering from the weight of the weapon. Strong, she figured.
Used to holding guns to people’s heads. Lovely.

“My employer is getting impatient. She requires an answer.” His head cocked.
“And for your sake, I hope it’s the right one.”

“Well, you see, I’ve already given my answer so I really don’t understand your
purpose in being here.” Mia placed both hands on her desk’s front edge. “I
suggest you leave right now before I get madder than I already am.”

“Oh?”

“You and your men broke into my house, assaulted my employees and now threaten
one of them with a gun. I’m plenty pissed right now, but still willing to let
you walk away with your manhood intact.”

“And if I don’t comply with your eloquent demand?”

She shrugged. “You’ll leave me with no choice.” Her fingers tiptoed under the
desk’s lip. “I’ll have to make you leave. On a stretcher.”

His laughter rippled forward, a rich, rolling guffaw that actually sent
freaking shivers along her spine. Christ, Mia, just how long has it been since
you had sex?

“And how do you intend to do that?”

She let a slow smile dance across her lips. “Like this.”

As she finished speaking, she tugged the stiletto from the hidden compartment
under the desk and threw it at the man. At the same time, Gus collapsed to the
floor and did a backward flip. The long slender blade with its needle-like
point punched into the man’s shoulder. He let out a cry of pain and rage. Off
balance, his fingers tightened involuntarily on the trigger. The Colt roared a
single shot, splitting the wood of the paneled wall on the opposite side of the
room.

She lunged across the desk, her ass sliding on the smooth surface and kicked
the gun from his hand. Her feet hit the floor, and she immediately flipped a
snap-kick at the man himself. He blocked her strike with both hands and before
she could pull back, used her forward motion to spin her around. His right arm
came from behind, snaked around her neck in a one-arm chokehold dragging her
against his chest. The metallic scent of blood mixed with an outdoorsy odor
teased her nose.

“Aside from the little poke, I expected more from you, Ms. Langdon.” His words
blew a warm gust across her neck. Tiny hairs lifted. “I’m disappointed.”

She took a deep breath, suppressing the flush of rage clawing for release.
Sparring while angry was a dumb way to get pulverized. “Don’t be,” she
countered. “I don’t want to mess up my new carpet with more of your blood.”

People say you should write about what you know. Do
you have any personal experiences that helped you while writing your book?

You are right. For years, writers were told to “write what
you know.” And this was something I
heard when I began this path over ten years ago. I did some research on who said this and
while this is most frequently attributed to Mark Twain, there is a general
consensus that no one really knows who said it but more than that, it’s
something that should be banned.

So, what
does it mean, really? Well, some believe it should be taken literally – to mean
writers should not write about things we have not personally experienced. This
is actually the definition I heard many years ago. Now, I find it very amusing
and my reaction to it can be summed up by a quote from Robert Duncan, “If I write what you know, I bore you; if I
write what I know, I bore myself, therefore I write what I don’t know.”

Isn’t that
great? Here’s another by Howard Nemerov that made me laugh - “Write what you know. That should leave you
with a lot of free time.”

So true.
Now, I don’t consider myself uninformed. I’m smart. I know stuff. But I don’t
know enough about places and things to infuse my stories with the atmosphere
readers are looking for. Because while we read about characters, we also read
for places and things. If I were to write only about what I know, I’d be
writing short, flat stories.

I write
paranormal stories. I have yet to meet a fallen angel, demon or a
shape-shifting rock. I have yet to travel to another planet. I have to visit Egypt and see the pyramids at Giza. I have yet to explore the Mayan ruins
in South America. Yet, these are all places I
have visited in my research.

I’d like to
leave you with another great quote on author’s writing what they know. This is
from Valerie Sherwood: “Don’t write what
you know – what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about
what interests you – and interests you deeply – and your readers will catch
fire at your words.”

Would my
writing be any better if I experienced some of these things? Maybe. I don’t
know. I think what makes it great is that I haven’t been there so I can infuse
my stories with the passion of discovering something new. And that’s what I try
to do.

I hope you
agree.

Giveaway Info and Photo:

Ten PDF copies of Blood on the Moon (INT)

Blood on
the Moon Bracelet (US Only)

Key of
Solomon Print Book (US Only)

$10 Electronic Amazon Gift Card (INT)

I wanna say Thank You to Cassiel for letting me review her book and Thank You to Jaidis for letting participate in the tour.

3 comments:

Hi and thanks so much for hosting me and Blood on the Moon! I'm so glad that you loved the book and my heroine and hero. I had so much fun writing their story - so much that I'm continuing it with book 2! Thank you for a wonderful review too!